[FRANKENTHALER, Helen]. GOOSSEN, E.C. Helen Frankenthaler. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY FRANKENTHALER.
Sale 2037 - Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jun 25, 2024
Lots Close
Jul 16, 2024
Timed Online / Chicago
Estimate
$200 -
$300
Sold for $349
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Lot Description
[FRANKENTHALER, Helen (1928-2011)]. GOOSSEN, Eugene C. (1920-1997). Helen Frankenthaler. New York, Washington, and London: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers for the Whitney Museum of American Art and the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, 1969.
4to. Original white cloth, spine lettered in black; dust jacket (some sort tears and minor creasing, slight soiling and toning). Provenance: Sibyl Beach (inscription from Helen Frankenthaler).
FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY FRANKENTHALER TO SIBYL BEACH on the front free endpaper: "For Sibyl Beach, Thank you for a friendly party after an evening of good exchange. Sincerely, Helen Frankenthaler 23 Nov. 71." Frankenthaler, an Abstract Expressionist painter, invented the soak-stain technique and was part of the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg, pivotal in its introduction of and transition to Color Field Painting. Her work was exhibited from the 1950s until her death, including the 1969 exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art overseen by American art critic and historian Goossen, accompanied by this exhibition catalogue.
This lot is located in Chicago.
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
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